Gold Coast Brownstone
A nineteenth-century row house restored to its plasterwork, and given a quieter, softer life inside it.
The house kept its best things: deep cornices, a marble mantel in nearly every room and three tall windows in each bay. We restored them, laid herringbone oak through the main floor, and painted everything the same warm white so the mouldings show by shadow rather than colour.
Against the old architecture the furniture is plainly new: rounded bouclé seating, a travertine table long enough for ten, a stone island with four chairs at the kitchen window. Brass is kept to the lights and the taps.
The study is the one dark room, with ebonised shelving lit from within. The stair hall is left almost empty: a stone console, a runner and the original black newel post.
For rooms like these
Things we would bring to these rooms, and keep specifying in others. Each one links to its maker.
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Michael Anastassiades' opal glass sphere, balanced on a thin brass arm. It looks weightless over a table and holds its own among plaster mouldings.
Visit Flos
Androgyne Dining Table
An oak base of interlocking planes under a round top in wood or stone. Round tables make better conversations, and this one seats more people than it looks.
Visit Audo
Purist Widespread Sink Faucet
Plain levers, a slim gooseneck spout and a laminar stream that does not splash. It suits a marble vanity and an oak one equally well.
Visit Kohler
Coupe Dinner Bowl
Edith Heath's rimless Coupe line has been in production since 1948. Quiet glazes, shapes that stack, and pieces that look better for being used.
Visit HeathProduct photographs from the makers.